Tourist & Settlers Guide to Mars

Moons: Phobos and Deimos. These small moons are unable to stop more pronounced axial precession (that causes a variation of the axial tilt) of the planet. With Mars, the wobbling axis from the normal to the plane of its orbit (obliquity) oscillates between 15° and up to 35°. The variations in axial tilt (caused by axial precession) results in global warming and global cooling (ice ages on earth). Currently Mars is in a warm interglacial period (a period of warmer global average temperature) that has lasted for 100, 000 years. Mars has a current axial tilt of 25.19°. Ice ages are influenced by axial tilt, the direction of tilt relative to the sun, and orbital changes (shape more like a circle, or more like an ellipse for example. Referred to as eccentricity).

Next Ice Age on Mars: It is uncertain how ice ages occur, but Mars is thought to be between Ice Ages right now.

Gravity: 3.711 m/s²

about 3.711/9.80665= 0.3784166866361092,

more than a 1/3 the gravity of earth roughly, meaning you could jump 3 times higher than you could on earth (if your muscles were the same, but muscles do get weaker as people travel to mars).

At the poles it has clouds and it does snow (but it does not reach the ground)

The sun: On Mars, it appears to be half of its size to that on earth.

Sky Color: Yellow brown. When water crystals are in the sky, the sky may be violet color, and at sunset and sunrise (occurs well before or after the sighting of sun) the sky is pink with blue colors near the Sun. [8]

Warning:

Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system, these dust storms may also emit lightning!!! [1] It is unknown if high altitude lightning occurs on Mars

Life: None known yet, but colonists, and previous spacecraft may have contaminated the surface of the planet with life. Of course Mars is a harsh place, and it could be asked if most unprotected life from earth could survive on Mars. Yes life can hitch a ride to Mars [3]

Tallest mountain in the solar system: Warning, this 21 km high shield volcano could still be active!

Tourist and Settler Guide on Travel to Mars: transit details

Static build up on outer skin on spacecraft: it can not be gotten rid of, but it will disappear when the spacecraft enters the atmosphere; the entry into an atmosphere will cause ionization which will bleed of the charge. [4]

For the Mars One crew it will take 7 Months to travel from Earth to Mars [7]

Words to Know When Visiting or Moving to Mars; or When Working as a Solar Reporter

Possessive Nouns: if they sound good, use them. If you are from Earth, then substitute the word Earth for Mars and see if it sounds right.

Mars’ people — “Mars’ people are well known for their like of isolated, quite places; and dislike of dust storms.”

Mars astronaut — “That Mars astronaut was the first person to ever travel to Mars.”

Last edited in Jun 2014

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